Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Sri Lanka and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Anthony Braxton to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Outsiders,
Agent Orange,
8 Eyed Spy,
June Days,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sight & Sound,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Style,
The Blackbyrds,
June of 44,
Johnny Clarke,
Andrew Hill,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed,
F. McDonald,
Maurizio,
Arthur Verocai,
The Names,
Excepter,
Bobby Womack,
The Dead C,
Robert Wyatt,
Swans,
the Soft Cell,
Joyce Sims,
Dave Gahan,
Colin Newman,
The Angels of Light,
Quando Quango,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hardrive,
Joensuu 1685,
Yusef Lateef,
Amazonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Livin' Joy,
Bad Manners,
Loose Ends,
Mandrill,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Evens,
Goldenarms,
B.T. Express,
Judy Mowatt,
Kaleidoscope,
The Smoke,
Carl Craig,
Boredoms,
The Happenings,
Michelle Simonal,
The Index,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.